Penny-plain People

22nd March 2013

I have written before about NT Live - the National Theatre's immensely successful live to cinema broadcasts - including about their showings of HamletFrankenstein and Phedre, as well as general pieces here and more

Tempo present and Tempo past

1st February 2013

Thanks to the eclectic and extraordinarily extensive DVD releases from Network we can now see a remarkable range of  ITV programmes from the past forty or so years. Who would have thought that the obscure serial more

The invisible films of Alan Clarke

23rd January 2013

Why is the work of one of our greatest filmmakers - the director Alan Clarke - all but invisible? This is not a new question. Nor do I have anything original by way of an answer. But the issue is much more